Philip Wilson Steer

The River, Ironbridge

1910

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Artist: Philip Wilson Steer 1860–1942
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Dimensions: Support: 232 × 352 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Bequeathed by George E. Healing 1953
Reference: N06186

Catalogue entry

N06186 THE RIVER, IRONBRIDGE 1910

Inscr. ‘P. W Steer 1910’ b.l.
Watercolour on buff paper, 9 1/8×13 7/8 (23·25×35·5).
Bequeathed by George E. Healing 1953.
Coll: George E. Healing by 1914 (Collins Baker card-index, British Museum).
Exh: Tate Gallery, April–July 1929 (80).

Steer spent the summer of 1910 at Ironbridge, near Bridgnorth, and N06186 and N06187 are two of a series of works painted there.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II